Looking at the shocking figures, Ken Kutaragi's thoughts couldn't help but fly to the United States on the other side of the ocean, just yesterday Iwata Mitsuko had already taken a plane there, and he couldn't help but have this thought in his mind: "Maybe the hope for the future of Sony Computer Entertainment is here!"

Foster City, California, USA, 3:...... p.m. local time

The dusty Iwata Mitsuki and the accompanying interpreter did not bother to rest and recuperate, and went directly from the airport to the office building of Sony Computer Entertainment America, the destination of the trip. Iwata Mitsuki is a research freak, usually soaked in the research room and rarely goes out, even to the good places around Tokyo, this time it is rare to come to a foreign country, in addition to the car just left the airport and curiously looked out of the window a few times, the rest of the time he devoted to the study of the materials he carried with him.

Judging from the introduction of the data, this is a project codenamed "Hawkeye", which comes from the idea proposed by a doctor named Richard Marx, simply put, it is to capture the player's movements through the camera to achieve the purpose of controlling the game, which can be regarded as a relatively novel game control method. As a research veteran, Iwata Mitsuxing has a deep study of game controllers, from the previous D-pad control controller to the more complex digital vibration controller on PS2, and even some rarer ones, such as the glove-type controller "Power Glove" that once appeared on Nintendo's red and white machine, he also knows something, but when it comes to using a camera to control the game, he really hasn't figured out how to do it for a while, so he is full of expectations for the destination of the journey.

Coming all the way from San Francisco International Airport, after more than 10 minutes of driving, Iwata Mitsuko already saw the welcome street sign of Foster City, a small city of more than 20,000 people, although the area is only 15 square kilometers, but the feeling of Iwata Mitsuxing is completely different, especially compared to the Tokyo he is familiar with, it seems very quiet and pleasant.

Sony Computer Entertainment America's office building is located on Hill Sandra Avenue in the center of Foster City, not far from Centrell Park and Centrell Lake.

As soon as he got out of the car, Iwata noticed several people standing not far away, and the leader was none other than Robert Kane, CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America.

"Mr. Iwata, welcome to America!" Robert Kane greeted warmly.

"Mr. Robert, it's a pleasure to meet you!" Iwata replied with a smile on his face, aided by an interpreter.

After a little greeting, at the suggestion of Iwata Mitsuko, the group ignored the fatigue of the journey, and went directly to the R&D department under the leadership of Robert Kane. Iwata Mitsuko is very curious about this project called "Eagle Eye", and before coming to the United States, President Ken Kutaragi talked to him, and he also knows the current predicament that the company is facing, if the "Eagle Eye" project is really as good as the information introduces, maybe it is really a good opportunity to turn around, but before that he needs to evaluate it well.

According to Robert Kane, a team of five led by Dr. Richard Marx was in charge of the entire project, and when Iwata and his party pushed open the closed door of the research department's office, Dr. Richard Marx and his team were sitting around a round table, casually drinking coffee and snacks, as if discussing something.

"Mr. Iwata, this is Dr. Marx in charge of the project!" Robert Kane took two steps forward, pointed to a man in a light blue shirt who had just stood up, and introduced the two parties: "Dr. Marx, this is Mr. Iwata from the headquarters. ”

"Dr. Max, it's a pleasure to meet you!" Iwata stretched out his hand with a smile on his face, in fact, he was still very confused in his heart, just like many Americans can't distinguish Easterners, and he can't distinguish Westerners a little, unless it is a colleague he often interacts with.

"Hello, Mr. Iwata!" Dr. Richard Marx stretched out his hand and shook hands with Iwata, and then began to introduce the members of his team one by one: "This is Paul Neal, who is in charge of digital image analysis......"

Iwata kept a smile on his face, shook hands one by one, and then greeted them one by one with the help of the interpreter, but in the end he was still a little vague about the names of several people, but fortunately, the focus was not on this aspect. After shaking hands and saying hello, Iwata glanced at Robert Kane with great interest, and then coughed lightly.

Robert Caine was slightly stunned, then understood, turned to Dr. Richard Marx and said, "Doctor, take Mr. Iwata to see your results!"

"Oh, okay!" Dr. Richard Marx nodded, knowing that the next crucial time was to attract the attention of the visitors, and that future research funding and the like would no longer be a problem.

"Mr. Iwata, please come this way!" Having made up his mind, Dr. Richard Marx reached out and made an inviting gesture, and then led the way to the room, this time inverting to introduce himself.

Iwata smiled and nodded, and walked behind Dr. Richard Marx, with a hint of anticipation in his heart, after all, the information on paper was not as detailed as what he saw with his own eyes, and at the same time, he was a little worried, worried that the actual "Hawkeye" project was not as good as the information introduced.

Pulling open a movable door, Richard Dr. Marx led the way in, Iwata Manxing followed up and took a look, this is a relatively spacious room, on one side of the shelf against the wall neatly stacked a bunch of instruments and equipment, on the other side there is a TV cabinet, in addition to a large screen TV, there is also a PS2 game console, judging from the computer in the direction of the black cable extension on the main unit, this should be a development machine, there is a camera above the TV screen, and on the opposite side of the TV cabinet is a large green background wall.

Noticing Iwata's curious gaze, Dr. Richard Marx smiled, pointed to the camera above the TV and said, "Mr. Iwata, this is Hawkeye!"

Iwata was curious to lean over and observe carefully, he found that the camera on the TV was actually a digital camera made by Sony, with about 300,000 pixels, and he didn't see anything magical in addition, but the large pure green background wall opposite the TV cabinet made him extremely curious.

"Mr. Ishida, let me show you how!" Dr. Richard Marx said, turning on the power of the TV and PS2 game console one by one, and the camera above the TV lit up red.

Mitsuko Iwata, who didn't know what was going on, decided to wait and see, he didn't want to make a joke. Dr. Richard Marx pressed the remote control a few times, and the TV screen appeared with the PS2 game console starting, beautiful dots of light around many cubes, and then "PlayStation2" appeared on the screen, and then the screen slowly went black, and when it lit up again, four huge icons appeared on the screen.

Dr. Richard Marx came to stand in front of the green background wall, and his image appeared on the TV screen at the same time, looking at the standing doctor, Iwata Mitsuki felt as if he had grasped a certain key, but the inspiration disappeared again, and his face couldn't help but show a puzzled expression.

Glancing at Iwata, who was a little stunned, Dr. Richard Marx stood in front of the green background wall and waved his right hand at the TV, and the picture on the TV screen immediately began to change, and a new game-like picture appeared, as if he had directly touched the TV screen with his hand.

Then, to Iwata's astonishment, Dr. Richard Marx was waving his hands like a madman, and sometimes even writhing as if he were dancing. What surprised Iwata even more was that the image of Dr. Richard Marx on the TV screen was also moving, and with the doctor's movements, the villain in the game screen was also reacting, as if the doctor's hands could directly operate the game, and a crazy thought was churning in Iwata's mind: "Oh my God, this is Hawkeye!"

When I read the materials on the way here, the whole article was full of technical terms such as "video keyframe recognition", "digital comparison of keyframes" and "computer image analysis", which was slightly beyond the technical scope of Iwata Mitsuko, which seemed a little puzzling, but now after seeing Dr. Richard Marx's performance, he suddenly figured out the so-called "Eagle Eye" In fact, the camera is used to capture video footage, and then compare adjacent images at high speed, judge the player's movements through the differences in the images, and then feed them back into the game screen. This is a completely new way to control the game, and it's very close to the player's natural habits, and doesn't require a whole bunch of gear like the old Power Gauntlet.

Iwata Mitsuki has not directly participated in game development, but in the process of designing the PS2 game console, he also has a deep understanding of game development, seeing Dr. Richard Marx's demonstration, he can't help but think of the possibility of "Hawkeye" application on PS2, maybe at that time players need to cast spells in the game and no longer need to press the gamepad to select, but directly make a gesture to release a huge fireball, and even like a science fiction movie, players can use their hands to directly select and operate in the air.

“…… At that point, the scent generator will be nothing, and Halo will be nothing!" Iwata couldn't help but smile smugly at the thought of the excitement.

Seeing the somewhat stupid visitors from the headquarters, Dr. Richard Marx was slightly disappointed, coughed lightly, and then continued: "The core of the 'Eagle Eye' project is computer high-speed image recognition and analysis technology...... The camera collects images at a fixed rate, and when there is no change in the scene, the content of the two images is the same, and when there is object movement, there is a difference...... By comparing two adjacent images, we can get different parts of the picture, and then analyze it to see if there is a moving object and some properties of the moving object, such as size, position, and color......"

Iwata listened attentively, and even habitually took out his notebook to record the key parts, and although most of what Dr. Richard Marx said was mentioned in the materials, the feeling was different when listening to the actual thing. It's a pity that Iwata Mitsuki didn't expect that Dr. Richard Marx, an old bird in the industry, was ambushed in the process of introduction, and said more about the advantages of "Eagle Eye", as for the shortcomings such as insufficient recognition ability, sensitivity to ambient light and inadaptability to complex backgrounds, most of them were fleeting, and basically did not mention them.

Therefore, with the efforts of two people with their own hearts, the internal introduction of the "Eagle Eye" project continued gloriously and victoriously......

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